UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC C HURCH

Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky, CSsR -

Served by the Ukrainian Catholic Redemptorists

ST. JOSEPH’S PARISH OFFICE & MONASTERY

250 Jefferson Avenue DECEMBER 13, 2020 Winnipeg, Manitoba R2V 0M6

HOURS 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

PHONE Office: 204-339-4512 Hall: 204-339-0061

EMAIL & WEBSITE [email protected] www.stjosephukrwinnipeg.ca

PASTOR Fr. Dmytro Dnistrian, CSsR

ASSISTANTS Fr. John Sianchuk, CSsR Fr. Frank Szadiak, CSsR

OFFICE MANAGER Natalia Bilynskyy

BLESSED VASYL VELYCHKOVSKY, CSsR

SHRINE

Shrine │ Museum │ Gift Shop Currently the Province of Manitoba has entered Critical level (Red) on the #RestartMB Pandemic Response System to stop COVID-19 transmission. All public gatherings, including all services have been PHONE suspended until further notice. 204-338-7321 Sunday Divine Liturgy will be live streamed on EMAIL & WEBSITE Youtube—St Joseph’s Ukrainian Winnipeg 10:00am

[email protected] www.bvmartyrshrine.com Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky CSsR Devotions Wednesdays 7:00 p.m. YouTube - Bishop Velychkovsky National Martyr's Shrine Слава Ісусу Христу! Glory be to Jesus Christ!

Dear Parishioners, The phrase “a shot in the arm” is often used to describe an experience that brings about a sudden and positive change to a difficult situation that at one time appeared to be beyond our control. In other words, “a shot in the arm” allows us to see the light at the end of a dark tunnel. Last Tuesday was such a day. Less than a week ago in England a special moment of excitement occurred. Many people throughout the world were waiting for this. On this day, the vaccine for Covid-19 was administered for the very first time. It was not only literally “a shot in the arm” for those who received this medication. It was also “a shot in the arm” for all front line workers and researchers who have struggled and have worked with such a great level of dedication throughout the current pandemic. Knowing that the vaccine is now a reality allows so many people to see the light at the end of the tunnel. This past week on December 9, our church celebrated the feast of the Immaculate Conception. This holy day is also known as the feast of The Conception of the Mother of God by St. Anne. This sacred day commemorates how Mary’s parents, St. Joachim and St. Anne, who were both well beyond child bearing years, were blessed to conceive their child, who was going to be the Mother of the Messiah. It would be fair to say that this event could be called “a spiritual shot in the arm” for all those who were waiting for the Messiah to come. Until this event happened, those who were expecting the Messiah were a people waiting in darkness, but now they saw the light of salvation in the distance. As we prepare to celebrate Christmas this year, what do we see in the distance? Certainly, the extension of level red health guidelines into January was something that all of us did not desire, but knew it was a possibility. For most of us, this will cause changes in the usual ways we celebrate Christmas. Not being able to celebrate with extended family and friends is a tough pill to swallow. At first glance, it is like staring into darkness with not a glimmer of light in sight. However, it is important to keep in mind that this is only one side of Christmas, call it the “holiday”. The other side is the “holy day”. In other words, the great day when our Saviour was born on earth to save the human race, which includes each and every one of us. This is the light in the tunnel that we must look for. Once we find it, we must hold onto it as we approach a Christmas that will be different on the outside. However, on the inside, we can find all that we need. It is vital to remember and share this reality with others. When we do so, it is like giving each other the gift of hopeful encouragement. For some, this just may be a very special and needed shot in the arm. Peace & Prayers, Fr. Dmytro Христос посеред нас! Christ is among us!

The Redemptorists and parishioners of St. Joseph’s extend a warm welcome to all. Thank you for worshipping with us today via our live stream.

Let us journey towards the feast of the Nativity with joyous hearts. Fast not only from food, but also from hatred and fear. Bring forth goodness and kindness to all. Forgive. Be generous. In all things, give glory to God

SundayDivine Liturgy 10:00 a.m. Saturday Vespers 4:00 p.m.

YouTube—-St. Joseph’s Ukrainian Catholic Church Winnipeg

Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky CSsR Devotions Wednesdays 7:00 p.m. YouTube—Bishop Velychkovsky National Martyr's Shrine

THE GIFT OF KOLIADA Ukrainian Canadian Congress - Manitoba Provincial Council invites the community to Celebrate Christmas with THE GIFT OF KOLIADA. A virtual Christmas concert featuring performances by many of our wonderful Winnipeg choirs, musical ensembles, schools and youth groups. Available from Tuesday, December 22, 2020 on the UCC-MPC YouTube Channel

Lubov SSMI Foundation Planning your Christmas Eve meal and need wheat for Kutia! Consider purchasing organic wheat and at the same time support the ministries of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate. The Red Fife wheat is local and comes from Zee valley Organic Farm. Price: $6 /400 grams feeding approximately 6. A portion of each sale supports the local Sisters ministers through Lubov SSMI Foundation Inc. To purchase for curbside pickup call 204-942-0443 or email your request to [email protected] Pick up at 1085 Main Street are by appointment only.

Bishop Velychkovsky National Martyr’s Museum and Shrine are closed until further notice due to the new government restrictions. If any information or assistance is required, please contact the Shrine office at 204-338-7321 or email [email protected]

Bishop Velychovsky Calendar The year 2021 marks the 20th Anniversary of the Beatification of Bishop Vasyl Velychkovsky. To commemorate this milestone, the Shrine has produced a colorful 2021 calendar. Each month features a different important event in Blessed Vasyl’s life. It is also a church calendar following the Gregorian (New) calendar and includes the saint of the day and the readings. This calendar is available from the Shrine Office at a cost of $20.00 which includes shipping and handling. Please call 204-338-7321 or email: [email protected] or order through the shrine website: www.bvmartyrshrine.com

Sunday of the Holy Fore-Fathers - December 13, 2020 Post-feast of Immaculate Conception

Sunday Tropar, tone 3: Let the heavens be glad, let the earth rejoice,* for the Lord has done a mighty deed with His arm.* He trampled death by death; He became the first born of the dead;* He saved us from the abyss of Hades* and granted great mercy to the world.

Tropar of the Forefathers, tone 2: O Christ, You have justified the forefathers by faith,* thus forming through them the Church of the gentiles.* These saints are glorified because the Virgin who bore You descends from the.* O Christ God, through their prayers have mercy on us.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit:

Kondak of the Forefathers, tone 6: Armed with invisible power,* you did not adore the idols made by human hands, O thrice-holy youths;* strengthened by a power beyond words,* you stood in the midst of a devouring fire and called upon God, saying,* “Hasten, O merciful One, and speed to our help,* for You are good and have power to do whatever you desire.”

Now and for ever and ever. Amen!

Sunday Kondak, tone 3: You rose from the tomb, O compassionate Lord,* and led us out from the gates of death.* Today Adam exults and Eve rejoices,* and the prophets together with the patriarchs unceasingly acclaim* the divine might of Your power.

Prokimen, tone 4: Blessed are you, and praiseworthy, O Lord, the God of our fathers, and glorious forever is your name.

Verse: For you are just in all you have done.

Epistle: A reading from the Letter of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Colossians. (Col. 3:4-11)

Brothers and Sisters! When Christ our life appears, then you shall appear with him in glory. Put to death whatever in your nature is rooted in earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desires, and that lust which is idolatry. These are the sins which provoke God’s wrath. Your own conduct was once of this sort, when these sins were your very life. You must put that aside now: all the anger and quick temper, the malice, the insults, the foul language. Stop lying to one another. What you have done is put aside your old self with its past deeds and put on a new man, one who grows in knowledge as he is formed anew in the image of his Creator. There is no Greek or Jew here, circumcised or uncircumcised, foreigner Scythian, slave, or freeman. Rather, Christ is everything in all of you.

Alleluia Verses: Moses and Aaron were among his priest, and Samuel, among those who called upon his name.

They called upon the Lord, and he answered them. Gospel: Luke 14:16-24

At that time the Lord said this parable: “A man was giving a large dinner and he invited many. At dinner time he sent his servant to say to those invited, ‘Come along, everything is ready now.’ But they began to excuse themselves, one and all. The first one said to the servant, ‘I have bought some land and must go out and inspect it. Please excuse me.’ Another said, “I have bought five yoke of oxen and I am going out to test them. Please excuse me.’ A third said, ‘I am newly married and so I cannot come.’ the servant returning reported all this to his master. The master of the house grew angry at the account. He said to his servant, “Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor and the crippled, the blind and the lame.’ the servant reported, after some time, ‘Your orders have been carried out, my lord, and there is still room.’ The master then said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and along the hedgerows and force them to come in. I want my house to be full, but I tell you that not one of those invited shall taste a morsel of my dinner. For many are called, but few are chosen.’”

Instead of ‘It is truly right…’: O my soul, extol the glorious conception* of the Mother of God.* You are an inexhaustible source of life,* O Mother of God.* You are a radiant lamp of grace, a temple of the Holy Spirit,* an all-pure tent more spacious* than the heavens and the earth.* Therefore, we the faithful,* praise you.

Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise Him in the highest.

Exult, you just, in the Lord; praise from the upright is fitting. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

Holy Family Home Festival of Lights Campaign is reaching out and inviting you to participate through donations. Donations will provide increased therapeutic recreation and rehabilitation services in the form of exercise programs that focus on residents to experience a strengthening of their body, mind and soul. Contributions will enable the Home to hire additional staff and purchase equipment, ensuring more resources are available, while helping reduce the sense of isolation that residents may experience during this difficult time. New this year, your gift will also help light up the Holy Family Home campus. For each $2,500 raised, more lights will shine for residents to enjoy. If you travel past the Home this Christmas season, you too will be able to experience the Festival of Lights.

To donate call 204-942-0443 or online at: www.lubovfoundation.ca For more information about Holy Family Home visit: www.holyfamilyhome.ca

Sunday Collection December 6 Sunday Collection $525 Flowers $140 Miscellaneous Donation $6780 Outreach $80 Christmas Offering $675 Holy Spirit Seminary $50 Pope Francis proclaims “Year of St Joseph”

With the Apostolic Letter “Patris corde” (“With a Father’s Heart”), Pope Francis recalls the 150th anniversary of the declaration of Saint Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church. To mark the occasion, the Holy Father has proclaimed a “Year of Saint Joseph” from today, 8 December 2020, to 8 December 2021.

In a new Apostolic Letter entitled Patris corde (“With a Father’s Heart”), Pope Francis describes Saint Joseph as a beloved father, a tender and loving father, an obedient father, an accepting father; a father who is creatively courageous, a working father, a father in the shadows.

The Letter marks the 150th anniversary of Blessed Pope Pius IX’s declaration of St Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church. To celebrate the anniversary, Pope Francis has proclaimed a special “Year of St Joseph,” beginning on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception 2020 and extending to the same feast in 2021.

The Holy Father wrote Patris corde against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, which, he says, has helped us see more clearly the importance of “ordinary” people who, though far from the limelight, exercise patience and offer hope every day. In this, they resemble Saint Joseph, “the man who goes unnoticed, a daily, discreet and hidden presence,” who nonetheless played “an incomparable role in the history of salvation.

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The letter in its entirety may be found on the Vatican website. Vatican.va Search Apostolic Letters

At the conclusion of his Letter, Pope Frances adds another prayer to St Joseph, which he encourages all of us to pray together:

Hail, Guardian of the Redeemer, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. To you God entrusted his only Son; in you Mary placed her trust; with you Christ became man. Blessed Joseph, to us too, show yourself a father and guide us in the path of life. Obtain for us grace, mercy, and courage, and defend us from every evil. Amen.

Divine Liturgy Intentions & Scripture Readings December 13-20

Sunday of the Holy Fore-Fathers Post feast Immaculate Conception Col. 3:4-11 Luke 14:16-24 Sunday December 13 For Our Parishioners Martyr Thyrcas and others - Post feast Immaculate Conception Heb. 3:5-11, 17-19 Luke 20:27-44 Monday December 14 +Frances Chanas Darcene Chanas-Laure +Evelyn Zaboroski Dolores Daniels Priest Martyr Eleutherius - Post feast Immaculate Conception Heb. 4:1-13 Luke 21:12-19 Tuesday December 15 Birthday Blessings Larysa Mom & Tato God’s Blessings & Health Mary & Wayne Leona & Zorian Prophet Haggai - Post feast Immaculate Conception Heb. 5:11-6:8 Luke 21:5-8, 10-11, 20-24 Wednesday December 16 +Fr Josaphat Korchinski Joan Prophet Daniel Heb. 7:1-16 Luke 21:28-33 Thursday December 17 +Harold Skazyk Family Martyr Sebestian Heb. 7:18-25 Luke 21:37-22:8 Friday December 18 God’s Blessings & Thanksgiving All Benefactors SSMI Saturday before the Nativity Gal. 3:8-12 Luke 13: 19-29 Saturday December 19 God’s Blessings Macsymach Family Blanchard Family Sunday before the Nativity - The Holy Fathers Heb. 11:9-10; 17-23; 23-40 Matt. 1:1-25 Sunday December 20 For Our Parishioners St. Joseph’s Ukrainian Catholic Church

Christmas Divine Liturgy Schedule 2020

Thursday December 24 - Nativity of Our Lord - Christmas Eve

4:00 pm Divine Liturgy (English) 8:30 pm Great Compline & Divine Liturgy (Ukrainian)

Friday December 25 Saturday December 26 Nativity of Our Lord - Christmas Day Sobor of the Mother of God 10:00 am Divine Liturgy 10:00 am Divine Liturgy

Sunday December 27 Friday January 1 Saint Stephen Circumcision of Our Lord 10:00 am Divine Liturgy 10:00 am Divine Liturgy

Following current public health guidelines all Divine Liturgies will be Live Streamed only at YouTube - St Joseph’s Ukrainian Catholic Church Winnipeg